Environmental leader Paul Watson: ‘If you have a birth certificate, you are guilty of contributing to the destruction of the planet’ – ‘It is indeed our one original sin, being born into a consumer-driven world’

Sea Shepherd Captain and ex-Greenpeace member, Paul Watson: Watson calls upon everyone to become vegan to save the oceans and prevent climate change, but warns that that's not enough. 'The bottom line is if you have a birth certificate, you are guilty of contributing to the destruction of the planet. That is simply a fact and it is indeed our one original sin, being born into a consumer-driven world.'

'I resigned from the Sierra Club Board because the nation’s oldest environmental organization whose founder John Muir was a vegetarian and an anti-hunter is now pro-hunting and pro-animal husbandry. When I left I called them the Siesta Club Hunting and Conversation Society. The planet will not be saved just by taking shorter showers, recycling your trash or driving in an electric car.'

Change comes about because of action, not because of words. I resigned from the Sierra Club Board because the nation’s oldest environmental organization whose founder John Muir was a vegetarian and an anti-hunter is now pro-hunting and pro-animal husbandry. When I left I called them the Siesta Club Hunting and Conversation Society.

The planet will not be saved just by taking shorter showers, recycling your trash or driving in an electric car. It takes one hell of a lot of short showers to equal the six hundred barrels of water required to make that one hamburger.

In fact a vegan driving down the highway in a Hummer is contributing less to creating greenhouse gases than a meat-eater riding a bicycle.